Buffer-wheel cover



.Batented Nov. 7, 1922.

INVENTOR. 4 Jmse rh 5t s'nql Patented Nov. 7, 1922.

unrrso srar'ss JOSEPH STANGL, OF WEST BEND, WISCONSIN.

BUFFER-WHEEL COVER.

Application filed November 28, 1921 Serial No. 518,299.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Josnrrr STANGL, a c tizen of the United States, andresident of l Vest Bend, in the county of Washington and State oflVisconsin, have invented new and useful Improvements in Buifer-WheelCovers, of which the following is a description, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, which are a part of this specilication.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in buffingwheels and refers more particularly to a cover therefor. The present daytype of buffing wheel top cover, such as that more especially designedfor use in connection with the shoe repairing and manufacturing art, isconstructed of a strip of canvas or the like with its medial portionstretched taut over a supporting disc.

This type of buffing wheel has several objections, one its short periodof usefulness, as with the use in the average shoe repair shop, onecover will last but two or three days and the other is that, instead ofcarrying the wax on its surface, the wax is absorbed by the cover andconsequently the major portion of it is lost.

It is, therefore, one object of this invention to provide a buffer coverwhich will hold the wax or buffing material on its surface and whichwill have a longer life than the covers now commonly employed.

This invention has for another object to provide a buffer cover whichmay he applied to the type of buffers now commonly employed without anyalteration therein.

A further object of this invention is to provide a bufier coverconstructed of leather, shaped to conform to the periphery of a wheeland having side flanges for engagement between the wheel sides andsecuring collars whereby the covering is maintained in place without thenecessity of tacking.

A still further object of this invention is to provide a buffer coverwhich will be comparatively cheap of production and which will performits functions in a highly desirable manner.

lVith the above and other objects in view which will appear as thedescription proceeds, my invention resides in the-novel construction,combination and arrangement of parts substantially as hereinafterdescribed and 'more particularly defined by the appended claim, it beingunderstood that such changes in the precise embodiment of thehereindisclosed invention may be made as come within the scope of theclaim.

In the accompanying drawing, I have illustrated one complete example ofthe physical embodiment of. my invention constructed according to thebest mode I have so far devised for the practical application of theprinciples thereof, and in which:

Figure 1 is a view of a buffer device equipped with one of my improvedcovers, said view being taken on the plane of line l1 of Figure 2, and

Figure 2 is a fragmentary side view thereof.

Referring now more )articularly to the accompanying drawings; thenumeral 5 designates a shaft which is journaled in suitable supports(not shown) and rotated by suit able power means (not shown) in thedi.rec tion of the arrow in Figure 2.

Adjustably fixed to the shaft by a set screw 6 is a sleeve or bushing 7one end of which is flanged as at 8 and the other end threaded as at 9,the medial portion of the bushing providing a support for a centrallyapertured wheel or disc 10.

Mounted on the periphery of disc 10 is a cushion or pad 11 which iscovered by a casing 12. The cover 12, in the present in- I vention, isformed from a strip of leather, the medial portion 13 of which issubstantially equal in width to the width of pad 11, and that part ofthe covering outwardly of the medial portion is transversely slit atspaced intervals as at 14:. lVith this construction of cover, themedial. strip 1?, conforms with the periphery of cushion l1. and the cutportions 1 .1; overlap, as best shown in Figure 2, and have their endsconfined between flange S and a screw collar 15 which is engageable overthe threaded end of bushing 7 to make wheel 10 fast to shaft 5.

The ends of the strip overlap, as best shown in Figure 2, so that oneend 16 will be rearwardly of the other end 1.6 according to thedirection of rotation of shaft 5 to prevent injury to the wheel when anarticle is being placed thereagainst for buffing.

In making the strip 12 any cheap grade of leather may be employed forthe purpose of economy and it will be readily seen that the wax or otherlouiiing material will remain on the surface of the cover and not beabsorbed thereby as is the case in the present type of canvas covering.Further, it will be readily obvious that by reason ofits toughness, aleather butting Wheel cover will outlast a cloth cover many times.

What I claim as my invention is:

In a device of the character described, the combination With a Wheel, amember 1nount ed on said wheel and flanges engaging the opposite sidesof the Wheel to secure the same to said member, of a cover for the Wheelformed from a substantially rectangular blank of material eachlongitudinal side of the blank having a plurality of spaced, parallelslits extending transversely oil? the blank from a point spaced from thecenter thereof to the adjacent edge, the unbroken central portion of theblank forming a buffing surface covering the entire periphery of saidWheel and the portions between the slits' forming flaps adapted to befolded against the sides of said Wheel and over lapped, said flaps beingsecured between said flanges and the Wheel sides to secure the cover tothe Wheel, the ends of the cover being-overlapped with the outer endextendingin the direction of the normal rotation of the Wheel and theouter edges of'said fiaps being extended in the direction oi? the normalrotation of said Wheel.

In testimony whereof, I aiiii: my signature.

JOSEPH STANGL.

